Between “integration” and stigmatization: Constructions of otherness in a municipality in Northeastern Argentina

Abstract

The aim of this work is to examine the modalities of social visibility of indigenous people in a municipality in General San Martín Department, in northeastern Salta, Argentina. In a frame of politics of recognition of indigenous people´s rights and the construction of multiculturalism in Latin American, my purpose is to deal with the ways in which these transformations are expressed and experimented in the context where interethnic relationships take place daily. Because of their importance to this aim, I focus on three municipal areas: the Cultural and Tourism Direction, the Coordination of Sports and the Human Development Secretary.